On January 29th in History
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On January 29th in 1856 - Britain's highest military decoration, the Victoria Cross, was founded by Queen Victoria.
On January 29th in 1861 - Kansas was admitted to the Union as a free state. It was the 35th state to enter the Union.
On January 29th in 1863 - General Ulysses S. Grant was placed in command of the Army of the West and given orders to capture Vicksburg.
On January 29th in 1886 - The first successful petrol-driven motorcar, built by Karl Benz, was patented.
On January 29th in 1916 - In World War I, Paris was bombed by German zeppelins for the first time.
On January 29th in 1917 - The U.S. passenger ship California left New York bound for Glasgow, Scotland. On February 6, a German submarine sank the ship killing 43 of the 205 people onboard
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